The weak and hungry mostly women and children are on a wooden boat anchored about 1 mile off the coast of Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh.

JAKARTA: The United Nations refugee agency has appealed to Indonesia's government to rescue a boat languishing off its western coast packed with more than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children.

Around 140 Rohingya refugees, primarily women and children, are stranded on a boat off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province. Facing a community that refuses to let them land, they endure dire conditions.

A boat carrying about 100 Rohingya refugees has been left stranded off the coast of north-western Indonesia, with at least one person dead as immigration authorities in Aceh province decide whether to allow the group to come ashore.

Over 100 Rohingya refugees are stranded off Aceh's coast, while negotiations continue amidst humanitarian concerns